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In 1951, a soft-spoken, skinny young man fresh from the University of Minnesota took a job in an old glider factory in St. Paul. Computer technology would never be the same, for the glider factory was the home of Engineering Research Associates and the recent college grad was Seymour R. Cray. During his extraordinary career, Cray would be alternately hailed as "the Albert Einstein," "the Thomas Edison," and "the Evel Knievel" of supercomputing.
At various times, he was all three - a master craftsman, inventor, and visionary whose disdain for the rigors of corporate life became legendary, and whose achievements remain unsurpassed.
The Supermen is award-winning writer Charles J. Murray's exhilarating account of how the brilliant - some would say eccentric - Cray and his gifted colleagues blazed the trail that led to the Information Age.
This is a thrilling, real-life scientific adventure, deftly capturing the daring, seat-of-the-pants spirit of the early days of computer development, as well as an audacious, modern-day David and Goliath battle, in which a group of maverick engineers beat out IBM to become the runaway industry leaders. Ultimately, The Supermen is a story of genius, and how a unique set of circumstances - a small-team approach, corporate detachment, and a government-backed marketplace - enabled that genius to flourish.
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The supermen: the story of Seymour Cray and the technical wizards behind the supercomputer
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The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-224) and index.
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